Asian vs Japanese

Japanese vs Asian

Asian and Japanese both are nouns.

Asian and Japanese both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Asian	Yes	Yes	No	No
Japanese	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, Japanese is a hyponym of Asian; that is, Japanese is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than Asian:

Asian: a native or inhabitant of Asia
Japanese: a native or inhabitant of Japan

Other hyponyms of Asian include coolie, cooly, Evenki, Ewenki, Mongol, Mongolian, Indian, Eurasian, Afghan, Afghanistani, Altaic, Armenian, Bangladeshi, Bengali, Bhutanese, Bhutani, Burmese, Byzantine, Cambodian, Kampuchean, Chinese, East Indian, Malay, Malayan, Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani, Hmong, Miao, Indonesian, Irani, Iranian, Persian, Iraki, Iraqi, Israelite, Israeli, Nipponese, Jordanian, Korean, Kurd, Kuwaiti, Lao, Laotian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Maldivan, Maldivian, Nepalese, Nepali, Pakistani, Parthian, Singhalese, Sinhalese, Sherpa, Syrian, Taiwanese, Tadzhik, Tajik, Siamese, Tai, Thai, Tibetan, Turki, Kazakhstani, Annamese, Vietnamese, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Dardan, Dardanian, Trojan, Iberian, Mongoloid, Timorese, oriental person.

Asian (noun)	Japanese (noun)
a native or inhabitant of Asia	the language (usually considered to be Altaic) spoken by the Japanese
	a native or inhabitant of Japan

Asian (adjective)	Japanese (adjective)
of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture	of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language

Difference between Asian and Japanese

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